This page groups historical figures by how actively they are venerated today, from figures with a living feast day and shrine to ones remembered only in scholarship. Many traditions formalize this status through a process such as canonization, which Wikipedia defines as "the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint." Browsing this way lets a visitor tell a figure with ongoing devotion apart from one preserved only in historical record.
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This source names China directly: "of Hellenistic Egypt and medieval China through the Renaissance physician-alchemists to Isaac Newton's own biblical chronology and unpublished alchemical notebooks."
Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
This source names Egypt directly: "from the furnaces of Hellenistic Egypt and medieval China through the Renaissance physician-alchemists to Isaac Newton's own biblical chronology and unpublished alchemical notebooks."
Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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